Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-15
SEVENTH DAY.

This, the seventh day of tho trial, was one
of sreatdnterest. as one of the eye-wltnesses
of Tho shooting of Haddock was to be put on
the stand. and Albert Koschniski, alias eBis-
,lnarck, . was again called and testiie as fol-
lows: aTieber said that tile preacher lived
there {by the church,. and that he would like
to give e5W to have Haddock whipped and
if I knew Fritz Folgcr. I said I did. He
asked me if I knew Granda, Folger's cousin.
1 said yes. Treiber told me to tell Granda
that he wanted to see him and to tell him that
he would give him $500 to whip the
freiber said Granda wasn't coming, and for
me to 60 ana bring him up. l said l didn't
like TO- 60, for it was raining. He gave me 5
cents for street. car fare. l went for Granda,
but he wasn't at home. l came back to Trie-
go home. At the corner of the Sioux National
Bank-corner of Pierce and FOURTH saw
seven or eight men, among them George Trei-
kber, Granda. Plath, Munchrath and Paul
AAeader; At that corner Irieber said to me:
and I went up towards tho Court House and
were gone about half an hour and went back.
Granda said he wouldn't whip the preacher,
for there was too big a crowd that would know
sbontik I'VE will" said he, ,sstay here a lit
can't find him." When we went back to tho
corner, I found there Leader, Plath, Treiber,
Munchrath. Learitt, Peters and others | didn't
know. didn't know Leavitt then by name.
Granda asked for money to get a drink. Path
gave Granda IS cents and he and I went to
lUlmer's saloon and got a drink, and went
back whore the fellows were. Then Treiber
.saldfor me and Granda to 60 to the Column
Ibia house and ask Charley Eberhardt if
the buggy had come back. We went to-
wards the Columbia house and l went in. I
saw Eberhardt He went inside and sont u
man out l asked him about a buggy. l hnow
lF~itzsimmons; Fitzsimmons went from the Co.
lumbia house to the livery stable, which is the
.next building. He came back at once. and l
did see. q buggy at corner of Fourth and Wa
tor Streets. was there about an hour. Gran
.da and ! went up Fourth street and saw a
crowd como out of Junk's. Stopped on the
corner, and Granda struck off there down the
street further. Az We went up to Junk's on
Fourth we met men going west, right at the
alley. Paul Leader was in front, Leavltt and
another man, Tricber, Arensiorf, Munchrath,
Peters and Plath and another man were in the
crowd. I went with Leader, and the other
fellows came on to Water street. I saw j I'm
Arnesdorf there. Ho had on q black coat-a
sack coat. Leavitt had on a long rubber coat.
We went TO the cOriier-the corner of Water
and Fourth streets. I won't with Paul Leader
south q little on Water street. The other fell
I saw a man coming across from the
JOHN Ace neaep: " th Sas ha said:
Il don't want you drunk Dutch fellows
around" bfr. Haddock then came from the
west sid of Water street. l was about ten or
I was closest the corner. Haddock came east.
iArensdorf ~startei up and crossed to meet him.
Just as Arensdorf passed Haddock, aront d
foot or two, ho turned and firod, and Haddo *
raised his hands and made a sort of hi sing
noise, and then staggered. Arcnsdorf stood